Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record — By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward …

Turning Point for Touch Screens — BREAKTHROUGHS often beget other breakthroughs, and Apple's slick use of touch technology on its iPhone has set touch-screen makers to salivating. An industry once relegated to niches now sees the potential for riches. — The market for touch screens …

New version of Kindle in development & more — Amazon is working on a new version of the Kindle, and sees a big opportunity to market its e-book reader to college students, McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Bueneman said Friday in an e-mailed note based on meetings with management.

Caution: Driver May Be Surfing the Web — ANYTHING that keeps tykes pacified on long car trips, like video systems in rear seats, is a boon to automotive safety. Today, Chrysler is poised to offer in its 2009 models a new entertainment option for the children: Wi-Fi and Internet connectivity.

The state of Palm- turn out the lights — Ryan Block has left the building. Ryan was the Editor-in-Chief at engadget and is leaving to start a new venture with Peter Rojas. I won't wish them luck as they don't need it, anything those two do together will be a raging success.

Jaiku is NOW on the Google App Engine — The long awaited move for Jaiku has finally begun. Last night they took down the home page and took all services off-line and replaced them with this message ... Now I can confirm that they have moved to the GAE and will be hosted there when they come back up.

Shareholders Disgusted With Yahoo! Board — Did Yahoo! hide how angry its shareholders are at the company? — After revealing late Tuesday that it had grossly downplayed the number of shareholder votes that opposed the re-election of Chief Executive Jerry Yang and other members to the board …

Russians dent Google's world domination — How a bunch of young upstarts humbled the search-engine giant — THE Russian mathematician was 24 years old when he first saw a personal computer, one of only a dozen in the whole Soviet Union. That was in 1984.

WidgetLaboratory Strikes Back At Ning Where It Hurts — Yesterday we reported on Ning's termination of its most popular premium widget developer, WidgetLaboratory. Although apparently justified, Ning removed all WidgetLaboratory widgets from its platform without warning to the community …

Connected, Yes, but Hermetically Sealed — “MAN is born free, and everywhere he is in chains,” said Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — What would Rousseau have made of the modern-day balls and chains with which we shackle ourselves? They are not made of steel or iron, but of silicon and plastic …

Rogers BlackBerry Bold 9000 Video Unboxing — Rogers and RIM sure never made it easy for BlackBerry loyalists and fans to track down the Rogers BlackBerry Bold 9000 in its first few days of availability. After a frustrating Thursday launch I was lucky to find success on Friday …

Firefox 3.1 Proposal: Tabs in the Awesome Bar — At the end of my last post on tabs, I mentioned Madhava's concept for putting tabs into the Awesome Bar. — It's a scalable and elegant solution. It has the hallmark of a good interface: it's almost invisible, with no training required to gain the benefits of the feature.